Hi all,
An article in this weeks observer (see http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/nov/01/magna-carta-800-celebrates-a… ) points out that it will be the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta next year (15 June 2015) and suggests there will be various TV and radio programmes (and books etc) to coincide with the significant date. I note this article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta ) regularly gets 150,000+ page views per month and this is likely to increase. It was listed as a Good Article back in the early days but was delisted in 2006 and has gone downhill since then. It is also listed on the Vital Articles for Society and Social Sciences. A few of us are trying to get it to at least GA or even FA standard before the anniversary – any help would be appreciated.
The specific reason for this email is that I think WikimediaUK had some sort of relationship (possibly a wikimedian in residence or similar) with the British Library years ago. For that or other sources does anyone have a contact within the appropriate department (possibly manuscripts curator or similar) of the BL who would be willing to help advise on the development of this important article?
Rod
Hello everyone,
Our contact database, CiviCRM, needs to be upgraded to a more recent
version. This means it will be offline for two to three hours. It will be
taking place on Tuesday 23rd December, which should help reduce potential
disruption.
This means from 16:00 to 19:00 on 23rd December the parts of our sites
supported by CiviCRM will be inaccessible, including membership sign ups,
events sign ups, equipment booking, and donations forms.
Regards,
Richard Nevell
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The Wiki Loves Monuments International winners have been announced. It's
good to see that three of the top 10 places were entrants in the UK contest.
Many congratulations to the UK entrants Fuzzypiggy (6th and 7th in the
international awards) and RevDave (8th).
Michael
> *From:* Itzik - Wikimedia Israel <itzik(a)wikimedia.org.il>
> *Date:* 22 December 2014 23:01
> *To:* Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition
> <wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> *Subject:* [Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: Winners Announced in World’s
> Largest Photo Contest: Wiki Loves Monuments
> FYI. We just posted the announcement. You are welcome to share locally
> with your press contacts (especially the countries on the first places!)
>
> ----
>
> This press release is also available online here:
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Winners_Announced_in_Wo…
>
>
> Winners Announced in World’s Largest Photo Contest: Wiki Loves Monuments
>
> *International jury selects top 10 photos from more than 321,000
> worldwide. Over the four past years, more than 1.1 million images have
> been submitted to the contest.*
>
> The international jury for Wiki Loves Monuments 2014
> <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/>announced today the 10 winning
> photographs from the world’s largest photo contest, which ran from
> September 1 - 30 this year. More than 9,000 photographers uploaded
> over 321,000 freely-licensed photographs of historic buildings,
> monuments and cultural heritage sites in 41 countries to Wikimedia
> Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>for use on
> Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects.
>
> This year, the grand-prize winning photograph is an image of theHoly
> Mountains Monastery
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Mountains_Lavra>, a complex of
> architectural monuments of national significance in Sviatohirsk,
> Ukraine, taken byKonstantin Brizhnichenko
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Brizhnichenko>. The first
> written mention of the monastery was in 1526. In 1624, the monastery
> was officially recognized as the Sviatohirsk Uspensky Monastery.
> Before World War I, the monastery was inhabited by approximately 600
> monks. During the 1930s, it was destroyed by the Soviets, along with
> other numerous religious sites throughout the Soviet Union. Today, the
> monastery community consists of more than 100 people, a number that
> increases each year.
>
> (Photo
> link:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svjatogorsk,_Lavra_3.jpg)
>
> The winner will receive flight and accommodations in Mexico to attend
> Wikimania, the international conference of the Wikimedia movement, to
> be held in July 2015 in Mexico City.
>
> According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Wiki Loves Monuments
> is the world’s largest public photo competition. In it, people are
> asked to take pictures of monuments from participating countries and
> to upload them to Wikimedia Commons, enabling the photos to be used to
> illustrate Wikipedia in articles about these monuments and other subjects.
>
> “With over one million free images of heritage sites across the world,
> Wiki Loves Monuments is one of the world’s most important history
> projects today,” says Deror Lin, the international coordinator of the
> competition. “Year after year, volunteers document hundreds of
> thousands of heritage sites across the world and upload the images to
> the internet under a free license for the benefit of the current
> andnext generations. These people display the splendor of creativity
> and culture in their countries.”
>
> The competition is organized in 41 participating countries, each
> focusing on their national monuments and with their own national
> prizes. This year, every participating country submitted 10
> nominations to the international jury who chose the winning pictures
> for the competition. A number of countries participated in the
> competition for the first time, including: Albania, Kosovo, Iraq,
> Ireland, Lebanon, Macedonia, Pakistan and the Palestinian Authority.
>
>
> The contest was first organized in 2010 in the Netherlands and
> resulted in more than 12,500 pictures of Dutch monuments. Over the
> past four years more than 1.1 million images have been submitted to
> the contest.
>
>
> *2014 Wiki Loves Monuments Winners:*
>
> *
>
> 1st Place - the Holy Mountains Monastery, Sviatohirsk, Ukraine by
> Konstantin Brizhnichenko -
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svjatogorsk,_Lavra_3.jpg
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svjatogorsk,_Lavra_3.jpg>
>
> *
>
> 2nd Place - Gare du Nord in Paris, France, by MrsEllacott (his
> image ranked 7thin the French national competition) -
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gare_du_Nord_December_2013.jpg
>
> *
>
> 3rd Place - Jøvik and Great Cormorants near Ullsfjorden, Troms,
> Tromsø, Norway by Siri Uldal (7th place in Norway’s national
> competition) -
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jøvik_handelssted_04.jpg
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J%C3%B8vik_handelssted_04.jpg>
>
> *
>
> 4th Place - Alte Sennalpe Batzen (literally: Old Dairy Mountain
> Pasture Batzen) at Bregenzer Forest in Schröcken, Vorarlberg,
> Austria by Böhringer Friedrich (9th Place in the Austrian national
> competition) -
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alte_Batzenalpe_2014_Interior_06.jpg
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alte_Batzenalpe_2014_Interior_06.jpg>
>
> *
>
> 5th Place - Montfort Castle at Sunrise, Israel, by Eran Feldman
> (1st Place in the Israeli national competition) -
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:מבצר_מונפורט_בזריחה.JPG
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D7%9E%D7%91%D7%A6%D7%A8_%D7%9E%D7%…>
>
> *
>
> 6th Place - St Michael’s Mount, Marazion, Cornwall, UK by
> Fuzzypiggy (1st Place in the UK competition)
> -https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Michael's_Mount_II5302_x_2982.jpg
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Michael%27s_Mount_II5302_x_2982.…>
>
> *
>
> 7th Place - Tower Bridge at Dawn, UK by Fuzzypiggy (3rd Place in
> the UK competition) -
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tower_Bridge_at_Dawn.jpg
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tower_Bridge_at_Dawn.jpg>
>
> *
>
> 8th Place - Victorian Valves at Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK by:
> RevDave (8th Place in the UK competition) -
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victorian_Valves.jpg
>
> *
>
> 9th Place - Interior of the Romea Theatre, Murcia, Spain by: Pedro
> J Pacheco -
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teatro_Romea_Interior.jpg
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teatro_Romea_Interior.jpg>
>
> *
>
> 10 Place - View of the Interior of St. Peter's Church, Teruel,
> Spain. by: Diego Delso -
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_San_Pedro,_Teruel,_Españ…
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_San_Pedro,_Teruel,_Espa%…>
>
>
> *For more information: *
>
> *Itzik Edri, Spokesperson for the international jury - +972-54-5878078
> <tel:%2B972-54-5878078>, itzik(a)wikimedia.org.il
> <mailto:itzik@wikimedia.org.il>*
>
>
>
>
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Dear All,
The Bodleian Libraries and Wikimedia UK are delighted to announce that we
will be supporting a part time Wikimedian in Residence at the Bodleian
library in Oxford. The post provides the opportunity to work with some of
the world’s richest collections to improve content on Wikipedia and its
sister projects and to share with the world the resources held in the
Bodleian Libraries. More details including how to apply at
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about-us/jobs#vacancy-115944 bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Regards
Jonathan Cardy
GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) Organiser
Wikimedia UK
020 7065 0921
(I'm normally in the office Tuesday's, Wednesdays and Fridays - Emails on
Mondays and Thursdays wont usually be seen till the next day)
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movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control
over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.
Excellent. Fantastic news, Andy! That will make a real difference to serious chemistry on Wikipedia.
Michael
> On 18 Dec 2014, at 15:28, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
>
> The Royal Society of Chemistry (disclosure: I'm Wikimedian in
> Residence there) has made a massive journal subscription donation to
> Wikipedia Library:
>
> http://www.rsc.org/news-events/rsc-news/articles/2014/dec/gold-journals-don…
>
> Please visit that page for details, to check your eligibility, and to
> request an account.
>
> --
> Andy Mabbett
> @pigsonthewing
> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Hi all,
We shall be having a Wiki Loves Monuments and community Xmas party 2014 in
the basement at Development House on Thursday 18th December from 5pm to 8pm.
Please bring a bottle to add to the festivities.
It would be great to see you there.
all the best
Fabian Tompsett,
Volunteer Support Organiser,
Wikimedia UK,
Address: 56-64 Leonard St,
Shoreditch,
London EC2A 4LT
Phone:020 7065 0990
*Mobile: *07840 455 746
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movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
The WMUK board's regular two-day strategy overview meeting was held in
Cambridge last weekend. This is the time of year when we focus on future
plans and we were joined by our interim CEO, D’Arcy Myers, who provided
us with fresh perspectives from the point of view of a relative newcomer.
The minutes of the meeting are being prepared, and should be available
within the next week, but the board felt that it would be useful to
publish a guide to the broad challenges that face us, and how we are
tackling them.
One of the tasks of the meeting was to review the third quarter
financial report, which included a consideration of the full impact of
Wikimania. The WMUK office ended up playing a larger role than had
originally been anticipated, and the charity's costs on both staff and
Wikimania-related programmes in the third quarter of the year has been
significantly higher than anticipated. At the same time, the Funds
Distribution Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation has indicated that it
will not recommend granting WMUK the full amount we requested for the
2015-16 financial year.
These factors mean that the board needs to review our plans for the
coming year in the light of the reduced funds available to us, and to
ensure that in spite of financial constraints our reserves are not
allowed to drop to an unacceptably low level.
It is inevitable that over the next year the charity will need
significantly to reduce its direct expenditure, both on overheads and on
programmes, and over the next few weeks our CEO will be working on his
recommendations for a detailed action plan to achieve that. The focus
will be not on 'business as usual' and salami-slicing our existing
expenditure, but on the opportunity we have to re-direct our energies
towards those programmes that are most able to provide us with high
charitable impact when weighed against the resources required (direct
costs, staff costs, number of willing and skilled volunteers available
and so on).
We need to prioritise, and to accept that we no longer have the luxury
of being able to support highly-resourced programmes that do not provide
a commensurate level of direct charitable impact when measured against
our strategic goals. There are an almost infinite number of useful free
knowledge projects we could be involved in, including many which are
directly aligned with our goals. But we have to have the courage to turn
projects down and acknowledge that our charitable aims are best met by
doing a limited number of projects exceptionally well than accepting a
multitude of ideas that we don't have the resources to follow up on.
Of course, the resources available to us are not fixed, and we will be
making significant directed efforts to increase both volunteer resources
and also locally-sourced finance via UK-based fundraising and gifts in
kind. The extent to which we are able to accept and support project
ideas for which we have insufficient core funding is likely to depend on
whether the project has a sufficiently large and skilled group of
enthusiastic volunteers who are able to lead and run it with minimal
staff help, and whether it is of interest to external grant-makers who
can be persuaded to cover the non-core costs.
Once the CEO has a draft action plan and 2015-16 budget prepared, they
will be shared with the community for comment and suggestions before
coming to the board for approval of a financially sustainable package of
activities geared to achieving our agreed strategy. We are happy to
accept general questions on this, but of course we can't discuss
anything relating to internal HR or staffing issues.
Best regards
Michael
____________
Michael Maggs
Chair, Wikimedia UK
for the board
Hi all,
I've been trying to learn how the File Cleanup tool (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_metadata_cleanup_drive/How_to_fix_meta…)
mentioned by Gordo a few days ago works. It looks like something which
would really be useful for both Commons and for smaller wikis -
standardising data would help the chapter the massively! It could be
something that the chapter could hold an event or competition around in
future - a "Great Backlog Drive" for 2015, like the one we ran in 2011 (cf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contribution_Team/Backlogs/Barnstars
).
Anyway, it's really interesting to see how it works, and I would encourage
you to all have a go at using it.
But to my point: I've fallen in love with it a bit, and tonight, when I get
home from work, I am going to have a crack at getting it set up on the
Welsh Wicipedia.
Does anyone fancy giving me a hand?
Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
0207 065 0992
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Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered
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United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
*Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control
over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
